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Circle In is building a global community for the modern working parent. They have one goal: to support today’s working parents, because the Circle In team knows they need more support than ever before. Founders Jodi and Kate met through work and felt connected by their shared experience of parental leave. They both returned to work with a loss in confidence, and realised very quickly that this was not uncommon.

Baymatob is an AI-guided solution to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies. The company was founded after the traumatic birth experience Dr Sarah McDonald, a mechatronic engineer with a PhD in medicine. Oli PPH is Baymatob's first AI-guided medical product based on the Oli maternity sensor, monitoring and diagnostic platform. Oli PPH is the only product to have ever demonstrated the ability to identify women who are at higher risk of developing postpartum hemorrhage well before they give birth, allowing for early prediction and clinical actions to prevent the leading cause of preventable maternal death. Oli PPH was recently granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

HEX exists to launch epic careers and unlock captive talent. We're creating a generation of leaders who take action to create the world they want to live in. The rate of change in tech is exponential, but the rate of change in traditional education models is kinda flat... So we hang out at the intersection of employability and innovation, delivering a new kind of learning. We're all about experiences that are immersive, up-to-date, and based in the real world. 5000+ students have loved our seriously fun virtual programs, study abroad experiences and hackathon-style events. And they leave HEX with amazing confidence, skills and networks — as well as university accreditation. HEX is proud to be driving economic growth through seriously fun innovation.

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handdii is an online marketplace that connects customers directly with contractors for insurance companies. handdii is a savvy tech that can save insurance companies significant claims costs, while producing happy customers at the same time. handdii can identify with the frustrations of making a property insurance claim. This is because the traditional fulfilment process is both complicated and cumbersome. When the damage to your home or business is relatively small, this lengthy and inconvenient process makes no sense. handdii is on a mission to put the control back into the hands of the customer and help trades excel at the work they do. handdii's product is unique and focuses on a specific problem area in claim fulfilment and property repair. handdii doesn’t want to be all things to all people but it wants trades to be able to show up, fix the problem, be awesome, and free customers up to focus on their lives.

PetCloud is a marketplace that connects pet owners with the pet services provider. It is a high-quality, national, pet care network that makes responsible pet care easy. The company shows a list of pet care providers together with their prices and duration of service. PetCloud's services include pet sitting, dog walking, house sitting, doggie daycare, grooming, and pet taxi.

Agscent is an animal healthcare company that offers livestock diagnostics services.

Mass Dynamics is an -omics knowledge generation productivity SaaS that enables Facilities and Labs (within BioTechs, BioPharmas and Academic settings) to progress critical biological insights through -omics data analysis, visualizations, knowledge base interrogation, sharing and collaboration - all in one place. The service accelerates biologists by 16x, so they can deliver better outcomes for disease mechanisms, the discovery of new drugs or identification changes, proteomics workflows involved in biological insights, and human to human collaboration.

HackHunter locates WiFi sources with precision, to within a few inches/cm. Organisations need to accurately find WiFi so they can investigate unauthorised, potentially malicious WiFi in their environment or locate lost individuals (search and rescue, law enforcement, defence).

Vitable is a D2C company that helps individuals maintain a healthy and balanced diet through an innovative approach. Customers receive personalized vitamin boxes via a flexible subscription model, tailored to their goals, health, and lifestyle: no more standing and guessing in front of hundreds of bottles from the shelf.

Cynch Security is online cyber fitness platform for digital small businesses. They take the complexity out of cybersecurity for business owners, enabling them to build cyber resiliency gradually over time by following their tailored program. By combining plain language advice and education, cyber risk assessment and cybersecurity products and services, small businesses are able to demonstrate their improvement in security to their customers, partners and regulators.

handdii is an online marketplace that connects customers directly with contractors for insurance companies. handdii is a savvy tech that can save insurance companies significant claims costs, while producing happy customers at the same time. handdii can identify with the frustrations of making a property insurance claim. This is because the traditional fulfilment process is both complicated and cumbersome. When the damage to your home or business is relatively small, this lengthy and inconvenient process makes no sense. handdii is on a mission to put the control back into the hands of the customer and help trades excel at the work they do. handdii's product is unique and focuses on a specific problem area in claim fulfilment and property repair. handdii doesn’t want to be all things to all people but it wants trades to be able to show up, fix the problem, be awesome, and free customers up to focus on their lives.

Neighbourlytics is a social analytics platform for neighborhoods that solves the human data gap for the property sector. Their property development decisions are based on physical data which includes land use and transportation. They help property developers, asset managers, consultancies, and governments in making community and customer-centric decisions.

Phasya offers solutions for detecting drowsiness and measuring eye movements. These solutions are based on eye tracking technologies using eye images. Phasya also develops solutions for detecting various physiological and cognitive states such as stress, attention, cognitive load, and mind wandering. Phasya solutions can be used in various applications such as safety, medical diagnosis, and research. We have notably specific solutions and developments for driver monitoring applications. Indeed physiological and cognitive states such as drowsiness influence the ability of an individual to perform a task or to make a decision. Furthermore the measurement of ocular parameters enables one to understand the brain activity and gaze behavior.

Galileo Platforms is a platform technology company serving the insurance sector. Using blockchain technology we connect all participants in the insurance industry efficiently and in realtime. Their platform drives efficiency through the entire value chain by having a central source of encrypted client and contract data that the distributor, insurer and reinsurer all view with permissioned access.

MimicTec is an agtech company that aims to improve productivity and welfare in the poultry farming and industry. MimicTec has developed prototypes, with initial working products tested with chickens in October 2016, and February, May and August 2017. We're now developing alpha versions on our product to be implemented on farms in collaboration with poultry farmers and engineers.

Scrunch is a data-driven Influencer Marketing platform that enables brands and agencies to discover the right bloggers and social media influencers. Scrunch has one of the world's largest influencer databases with over 20 million profiles and billions of datapoints. The platform makes it easy to get the data you need about your influencers, plus has some awesome CRM and outreach style functions to make managing your campaigns easy.

Cadenza Innovation provides patented Li-ion battery design and architecture for a license to global manufacturers. Its cell design combines the properties of wound jelly rolls and large prismatic cells and allows for game-changing high energy density at a low cost.

ShowGizmo is engaged in the development of mobile application for events organized by government agencies, venues, associations, and aged care associations. Event professionals can personalize the application by having their own designs and logos; and offering customers with in-app tickets counters, and accommodation and flight details. Private news feeds and messaging features facilitates the increase of social conversations surrounding the event, while feedback and Q&A sessions make way for increased attendee engagement. Organizers can also understand and measure audience engagement through key metrics, polls, and reports that are accessible through in-app dashboards. ShowGizmo was launched by Marie-Claire Andrews in April 2011 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

FirstStep Investments Australia Pty Ltd is a Melbourne-based company that has developed a mobile application designed to facilitate investment using users' savings. Founded in 2015, the app allows individuals to invest their spare change generated from everyday electronic purchases by rounding up transactions to the nearest dollar. Users can choose to set up regular fixed investments through direct debit or utilize the rounding feature, which automatically invests the accumulated amounts into a diversified portfolio of low-cost exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The application is accessible on both iOS and Android platforms, enabling individuals to engage in investing without a minimum investment requirement, thus promoting a hassle-free and automated investment experience.

CloudPeeps is an all-in-one platform, marketplace and community that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work.

Scrunch is a data-driven Influencer Marketing platform that enables brands and agencies to discover the right bloggers and social media influencers. Scrunch has one of the world's largest influencer databases with over 20 million profiles and billions of datapoints. The platform makes it easy to get the data you need about your influencers, plus has some awesome CRM and outreach style functions to make managing your campaigns easy.

Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics targeting the toxic proteins that cause the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative diseases of the human brain. Toxic proteins play a crucial role in a large class of disease targets, and there are currently no therapeutics available to prevent toxic protein accumulation or block their destructive effects. Cognition is founded on the unique combination of biological expertise around these targets, including proprietary assays that emphasize functional responses and proprietary medicinal chemistry that insures novel, high quality small-molecule drug candidates.

Emily Crisps is a food start-up that aim to provide health-conscious consumers with the opportunity to indulge in ‘guilt-free’ snacking. Emily Crisps offers crunchy fruit and veg crisps available in 5 delicious flavors, all gluten free and completely natural.

TrademarkVision was founded in 2011 as a computer vision spinout from a research organisation in Australia. In 2013 they released the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks which immediately picked up commercial traction. For any company trying to build a brand around their new logo, they know that ensuring their logo is protectable as a trademark (and infringement free) globally can be a time-consuming and costly process. TrademarkVision’s reverse image search technology cuts this process down to seconds while giving accurate global coverage. Their first-to-the-world technology has the potential to not only improve brand owner’s lives, but completely change the game of brand protection. TrademarkVision is now used by trademark attorneys, brand owners and IP offices worldwide and has set a new industry standard. TrademarkVision was recognized in 2017 in the Top 10 Most Innovative AI/Machine Learning companies in the world by FastCompany, and in the Top 8 Companies Changing How Machine Learning Is Used by Entreprenur.com. They’re passionate about what they’ve created, but it’s only the start. They believe in continual research and everything they do is a step towards being the leader in image recognition, with recent launches of 3D designs search, automatic image classification, and a deep-learning based Brand API.

Paloma Mobile, founded in July 2011 by Jennifer Zanich and Steve Langkamp, develops and commercializes a cloud-based platform that delivers data-efficient smartphone applications. The company’s first service Photo Chat, delivers a mix of photos and social features, such as voice notes, in private conversations with friends or family.